Lectures related to Consensus (computer science)

Consensus Mechanisms: Bitcoin and Distributed Ledger Technology

Explores permissionless and permissioned consensus in Bitcoin, covering information-based money, public keys, and asynchronous pacing mechanisms.

Consensus: Distributed Computing Algorithms

Covers the consensus problem in distributed computing, focusing on uniform consensus properties and algorithms.

Decentralized Systems Engineering: Consensus and Fault Tolerance

Explores decentralized systems engineering, consensus algorithms, fault tolerance, Byzantine faults, and the practical applications of fault-tolerant systems.

Limitations of Bitcoin and Increasing TPS

Discusses the limitations of Bitcoin and ways to increase transaction processing speed.

Decentralized Systems: Byzantine Consensus and Bitcoin

Explores Byzantine consensus in decentralized systems and Bitcoin's consensus mechanisms.

Replication and Consensus in Distributed Systems

Explores replication, consensus, Paxos algorithm, majoritarian consensus, and time-stop reservation in distributed systems.

Decentralized Systems Engineering: Fault Tolerance & Consensus

Covers Paxos, fault tolerance, Byzantine faults, redundancy, and blockchain structure in decentralized systems engineering.

Ethereum Consensus Protocols: Security and Attacks

Explores Ethereum consensus protocols, vulnerabilities, and solutions for ledger system security.

Replication and Consensus

Covers replication, strong consistency, failure modes, network models, and the Paxos algorithm.

Sybil Attacks and Defenses

Discusses Sybil attacks, fake identities, and defenses in permissionless consensus systems.

Consensus: Timing Assumptions

Explores Consensus implementation using timing assumptions, Leader role, and minimal synchrony requirements in distributed systems.

Blockchain Fundamentals: Decentralized Technologies Overview

Provides an overview of blockchain technology, covering its history, use cases, challenges, and future trends in decentralized technologies.

Blockchain Technology: Basics and Governance

Explores blockchain basics, governance, consensus protocols, scaling solutions, and real-world applications.

Sybil Defenses: Artificial Costs

Explores Sybil defenses, social/trust network defenses, and 'Proof of Personhood' concepts.

Sybil Attacks and Defenses

Explores Sybil attacks, fake content creation, and defenses against online identity fraud.

Consensus Algorithms: FloodSet

Explores the FloodSet algorithm for achieving consensus in distributed systems through guided proofs and communication complexity analysis.

The Quest for Universality in Computing

Explores the history of computing, the impact of the consensus problem, and ongoing research to regain universality in large-scale networks.

Decentralized Systems Engineering

Explores decentralized systems engineering, covering database initialization, reliable messaging, consensus algorithms, and encryption protocols.

FloodSet Algorithm: Consensus and Agreement

Explores the FloodSet algorithm for synchronous agreement in crash failures and its communication complexity, along with bonus exercises on consensus protocols.

Distributed Computation: Consensus Algorithms in Networked Control Systems

Explores consensus algorithms in networked control systems, covering topics like Metropolis-Hasting models and distributed computation of Least-Squares regression.